The type represents the class of one-place integer-valued functions of integers; here's how:

For any (closed) expressions t1 and t2, t1 = t2 just when

for any expressions r1 and r2, if r1 = r2 then t1(r1) = t2(r2) .

Specializing this condition variously,

if t and r then t(r)

if t and r1 = r2 then t(r1) = t(r2)

if t1 = t2 and r then t1(r) = t2(r)

Generalizing away from domain and result types, the type AB represents the class of one-place B-valued functions of arguments from A. Here's how: t1 = t2AB just when

t1 and t2 execute giving result expressions "x1.b1(x1)" and "x2.b2(x2)", and
for any expressions r1 and r2, if r1 = r2A then t1(r1) = t2(r2) B.

This extra condition about the execution of t1 and t2 themselves evaluating to "x.<*>" forms is not theoretically essential, but it is standard. In the case of above we omitted mentioning it for simplicity, and because it follows from the way we happen to define evaluation of "f(r)" and the fact that has members.

Note: We could have chosen to define AB without this condition on its members with the result that, when A was empty, every closed expression would denote the single degenerate member of AB. It is degenerate because it cannot be applied to anything in the domain A.

Actually, AB is a special form of the more general x:AC(x). When A is a type and C(x) is a type-valued function (in x) over domain A, then a member of x:AC(x) is a function which for an argument aA takes a value in the type C(a). That is, one can specify the
type of the output as a function of the
value of the input. So, t1 = t2x:AC(x) just when

t1 and t2 execute giving result expressions "x1.b1(x1)" and "x2.b2(x2)", and
for any expressions r1 and r2, if r1 = r2A then t1(r1) = t2(r2) C(r1).

Since C(x) must be a type-valued function in xA, C(r1) and C(r2) must denote the same type, so we might as well have said "t1(r1) = t2(r2) C(r2)" above.

This type constructor is also called the "general product" of a family of types, and indeed the most common notation for it is "x:A. B(x)".

When the expression for the result type does not use the input variable, we get the special form for display AB.